What is a Lobotomy and How Were People Forced Into One?

30 Morbid Minutes

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Popularized during the 1930s as an alleged mental health treatment, lobotomies destroyed the lives and cognitive function of many. Today, in the United States, they're technically still legal. Go to http://hatch.co/30mm to get $20 off plus free shipping. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp — go to http://betterhelp.com/30MM to get 10% off your first month. Follow us on Social: https://twitter.com/elysewillems https://twitter.com/JessicaVasami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.2	is advised. Are you depressed? Do you suffer from anxiety and
0:39.8	migraines? If the answer is yes, you may need a lobotomy. Come on down. It only takes 10 minutes.
0:47.0	Welcome to 30 morbid minutes.
0:49.2	Music This is the podcast where we cover topics of a morbid, macab, dark, and downright grisly nature, and sometimes we perform at-home lobotomies on each other,
1:11.6	occasionally. Wow, way to get right into it. Yeah, way to wake up people in the morning.
1:18.0	I'm Alyssa Williams. I'm Jessica Vasami. Rosemary Kennedy was born on September 13, 1918. She was the only
1:25.2	daughter of what was the Kennedy dynasty. Her brothers, Bobby and
1:29.0	John F. Kennedy, JFK, would later go on to live and die in infamy. Rosemary was physically
1:34.6	slower than the rest of the kids. It took her a while to learn to walk, and once in school,
1:39.2	she was labeled with intellectual disabilities. Despite this, she lived a fairly normal life. She kept a diary,
1:45.9	went to dances, and was even invited to the royal court when she lived in London as a teenager.
1:51.6	Rosemary was adorable, too. She had dark brown hair and apple cheeks. But after Rosemary
1:57.0	returned to the United States from England, Her family believed that she was what they
2:01.2	considered to be on the decline. At boarding school in Philadelphia, Rosemary flew into violent
2:07.7	rages and was sent to live in a convent school. I would fly into violent rages, too, if I was sent
2:13.0	to live in a convent school. Well, yeah. Yeah. It wasn't before long that she started sneaking out of the convent at night, also understandable.
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